A view from under the pew: the malaprop mouse editor

April 23, 2009

By Gary Mitchell: CNJ religion columnist

amos the churchmouse:

a view from under the pewEditor’s note: Amos is a churchmouse, who types by hurling himself at the computer keyboard, but he can’t operate the capital shift, and he shuns punctuation marks – except hyphens and dashes.

the malaprop mouse editor

boss i may have mentionedthis once before but lifeain t easy under acushionless church pew

and especially so if you re a newspaper editorin the church pew underworld communityof bugtussle

one of the editors on the world-renownbugtussle gazette has abit of a headline problemboss – he tends to createheadlines with ambiguousstatements shifted meaning and malapropisms

i m sure you already knowbut a malapropism is the substitution of an incorrectword for a word with a similarsound – and it often comesacross with a humorouseffect – much to the delightof gazette readers

for example in a headlineabout a recent court case thatfinally came to court after along delayed wait mickey themalaprop editor penned thisdefendant cites statue of limitations